Posted by Pace at 7:36PM, Monday June 4 2012

2. Hylobates, Hoolock, Nomascus and Symphalangus

Posted by Cargo Cult at 10:49PM, Monday June 4 2012

Why? When I was first setting out into the Glorious Land of Work, the existing IT persons at a company I'd done some odd-jobs for had been often compared with gibbons.

Declaring myself to be an altogether higher class of gibbon (cue monocle, top hat and twirling of moustache) I proceeded to storm through the Belgian IT world with such unheard of traits as 'vague competence', 'house-training' and 'being able to identify a terribly expensive server being connected to the terribly expensive network via a rickety old 10Mb/s hub'.

(The gibbons proceeded to install a new and terribly expensive 100Mb/s switch into the rack, which I then had to point out may have had power but didn't actually have any network cables plugged in. I was very popular.)

So there you go. The true story of why I ended up with this impossible-to-spell in-joke of a domain name - it's actually a veiled insult towards an otherwise-forgotten group of utter numpties.